PSYCHiATRIZED: Waking Up After a Decade of Bad Medicine
When a trusted physician tells Renée Schuls-Jacobson that he has the solution for her chronic insomnia — a “tried and true medication without any side effects,” she believes him. For seven years, she takes her clonazepam exactly as prescribed until, one day, she learns that her doctor is wrong: long-term benzodiazepine use causes all kinds of problems including profound changes in brain function.
With the help of an addiction specialist, Renée embarks on a slow, medically supervised taper, only to find herself cognitively scrambled and stuck in the nightmare of benzodiazepine withdrawal. For nearly four years, she endures hundreds of terrifying physical, emotional and psychological symptoms – none of which were present before taking the medication.
While healing from an iatrogenic brain injury that is not widely recognized by doctors, Renée leaves everything familiar behind and goes on a journey, meeting scientists and sages, healers and hucksters, who all teach her the same hard lesson: to stop seeking the help of experts and to trust her intuition.
In PSYCHIATRIZED: Waking Up After a Decade of Bad Medicine, Renée Schuls-Jacobson contemplates the cost of compliance and exposes the truth about the dangers of psychiatric drugs as well as a discontinuation syndrome, which affects thousands of men and women worldwide.
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Amanda Rossi –
Once I started this book, I could not put it down. I finished it in one day! I was totally captivated by Renee’s life story, but also the information she shared about several different pharmaceuticals. This book was the perfect mesh of autobiography, scientific research, and self-help / wisdom for the reader. As someone pursuing school to become a physician assistant, I will be taking the experience of Renee and others into mind as I study, learn and begin seeing patients myself. This is something that every provider or patient (aka EVERYONE) should read!
renée a. schuls-jacobson –
Amanda, Thank you so much for this review! I’m so glad you found my story to be impactful! Best of luck to you on your journey to provide better care for people! We need you!